Continuing the Unreal Canucks GIF Tournament, a quest to determine which Canucks GIF is the greatest in existence. We’ve narrowed it down to 32 candidates, divided into four divisions then seeded, one through eight. Now we need your help. An important note: this isn’t just something to do while the players and the owners waste time bickering over who should get what’s left of the money they’re burning — it’s also a super-important initiative. After all, if we don’t do this, how else will we know? AND WE MUST KNOW.

UNREAL CANUCKS GIF TOURNAMENT — SECOND ROUND, BIEKSA DIVISION

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(2) We call this gif DHALSIM PUNCH.

It’s a battle of Bieksian punches, as Kevin Bieksa dispatches his enemies using a flurry of close and long-range attacks. It’s long-range first, as Bieksa goes after Cal Clutterbuck by shooting his hand across the room. The attack doesn’t quite land, as the glove bounces harmlessly off Hamhuis’s shoulder, but that’s just because Clutterbuck got lucky. Next time: he gets smacked right in the gob. Unrelated: hey, remember Gob?

(4) We call this gif SUPERMAN PUNCH.

If that glove had connected, this is what it would have felt like. Bieksa goes for the more traditional close-range punch, landing a blow to the side of Mike Richards’ head. Watch the official to Bieksa’s left. As soon as the punch lands, he swivels back towards the fight, as though he thinks that might be the end of it. It sort of is.

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